Publicly Available Tools and Software

Network management tools Useful utilities that we (the RIPE NCC) produced for you (our members) to manage your resources and help you with your resource requests.

Syntax checkers The LIR Portal has the functionality to do real-time syntax checking on request forms and offer interactive help. As a result, you will not have to syntax check your request before copying and pasting it in your e-mail client.

Routing Tools These tools are designed to help make routing information more convenient and useful for network engineers.

Network management

Asused
This is a web version of the public asused program. You can use this tool to run a check on the usage of your registry's allocations as registered in the RIPE Whois Database.

Asused source (via FTP)
This is the command-line version source code for the above tool.

ASinuse
The ASInuse query determines when an AS number last appeared in the global routing tables. The data is collected by the Routing Information System.

Crypt password interface
This tool will encrypt a cleartext password to use in your mntner object as one of the authentication schemes. See also: RIPE Whois Database support.

IPCount Tool
A tool that returns a list of IP prefixes with their ranges and sizes from a given IP address range.

Standard Text Template source (via FTP)
The source code of the Standard Template Tool for generating customised standard email replies.

Zone Delegation Checker
A gateway to the routines which the RIPE NCC use to check reverse zone setup in the DNS before they are actually delegated. (Source code also available as a zipped Unix tape archive)

Syntax Checkers

Zone Delegation Checker (via FTP)
Source code of the Zone Delegation Checker that the RIPE NCC uses to check reverse zone set up in the DNS before they are actually delegated.

Routing

Whois client web page
The RIPE Network Management Database contains information about IP address space allocations and assignments, routing policies and reverse delegations in the RIPE region and beyond.

Local whois web client source (via FTP)
The source code for the above tool

ripe2rpsl (via FTP)
Command line tool for conversion between ripe-181 and RPSL format.

RIS Looking Glass
The Looking Glass service runs on our remote route collectors.
More tools from our Routing Information Service.

Deployment of Internet Security Infrastructures
DISI related code developed at the RIPE NCC

Prototype for Synchronous Updates on the RIPE Database
• Web based interface
• Command Line Perl Script

Other tools and software are available from our ftp server